Register v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably Ferguson v. Georgia (1961), Standard Oil Co. v. Reagan (1915)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Grant v. State · Spence v. State · Fagg v. State · Mangham v. State · Cook v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only logical, but eminently proper, and consistent with all the better notions as to how justice should be judicially administered, . . . that in such a case the judge should stand his ground and compel the jury to tender a verdict responsive to the issue as he in the due exercise of his prerogative has framed it ... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Freeman
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.